Monthly Archives: August 2008

Visualization Strategies for Text

Visualizing text documents as clouds or networks can reveal hidden meanings and even the occasional poetic truth. This blog post takes a look at various ways to visualize text, with plenty of links to online tools like Wordle (which I … Continue reading

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The Matryomin

The Matryomin is a theremin-like electronic instrument encased (for reasons unknown) in a wooden Russian doll. From the description of the Matryomin on inventor and theremin player Masami Takeuchi‘s website: Matryomin is the unique, original erectronic musical instrument invented by … Continue reading

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Animal Collective – Reverend Green Live

Animal Collective = magic.

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Spooky Action Heroes

Physicists at the University of Geneva achieved the weird result by creating a pair of ‘entangled’ photons, separating them, then sending them down a fibre optic cable to the Swiss villages of Satigny and Jussy, some 18 kilometres apart. The … Continue reading

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Architecture of Density

Hong Kong architectural photographs by Michael Wolf

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The Antikythera Mechanism and the Olympics

Researchers have finally figured out (some of) what the mysterious Antikythera Mechanism does. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in The Lost Ring… The world’s first known scientific instrument plotted the positions of celestial bodies nineteen … Continue reading

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